Alex Kasprak
Alex Kasprak is an investigative journalist and science writer whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, Motherboard, New Scientist, and other venues. Prior to joining Snopes, he was a staff science writer at BuzzFeed and a science communicator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has master's degrees in geological sciences from Brown University and in science writing from Johns Hopkins University. Kasprak has been with Snopes since 2016 and has served as senior writer since 2019.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 30, 2016
A map of Los Angeles in an ice-free — but pun-friendly — world accurately reflects some estimate ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 14, 2016
Extremely muscular cattle are the result of genetic mutation and decades of selective breeding — ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 7, 2016 (Updated: Nov. 30, 2017)
Video capturing the explosion of SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket during a test fire seems to show an un ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 4, 2016
A video showing a chimp finding numbers on a screen is real, and part of ongoing research at Kyo ...
Written by: Dan Evon Alex Kasprak
Dec. 16, 2015 (Updated: June 29, 2022)
No matter how you look at it, the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by volcanoes is signifi ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria Alex Kasprak
Nov. 11, 2015
Water is water, regardless of how many times it has boiled. The assertion that it becomes toxic ...
Written by: David Mikkelson Alex Kasprak
Dec. 25, 2014 (Updated: July 26, 2017)
Are U.S. farmers saturating wheat crops with Monsanto's Roundup herbicide as a desiccant to faci ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 26, 2014
To understand the purported science behind this claim, however, it is first necessary to review ...
Written by: David Mikkelson Alex Kasprak
July 16, 2011
While it is possible for one to be injured or killed by a lightning strike while bathing, such o ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 8, 2007 (Updated: Feb. 18, 2019)
A subset of dogs appears to be susceptible to kidney damage following the ingestion of grapes, b ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 11, 2002
Claims that athletes intentionally conceive and terminate a pregnancy for performance enhancemen ...
Written by: David Mikkelson Alex Kasprak
Oct. 30, 1999
It’s far from guaranteed to happen, but the risk of decapitation for copulating male mantids wou ...
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